Science: Through the Looking Glass

Every night last week, 16-year-old Lewis Macfarlane, a tall, intent
Seattle high-school senior, carefully trained his homemade 8-in.
telescope on a northeastern sector of the star-sprinkled sky. Now and
then he paused to check his notes with fellow sky-watcher Karl Krienke,
24, a math teacher at Seattle Pacific College. They were compiling a
logspeed, appearance, locationon Comet 1955F, and their
unmistakable pride came from the fact that they had just discovered the
new comet themselves.